Nominations Open for AMS Awards, Prizes

Celebrate excellence in mathematics scholarship, education, and outreach by nominating colleagues for upcoming American Mathematical Society (AMS) prizes and awards. Nominations are open until June 30. Winners will be recognized at the 2022 Joint Mathematics Meetings in January.

The AMS’s newest prize, the Ciprian Foias Prize in Operator Theory, will be awarded every three years beginning in January 2022. The prize will recognize notable work in operator theory published during the preceding six years. Ciprian Foias (1933–2020) was an influential scholar in operator theory and fluid mechanics, a mentor, and an advocate of the mathematical community. His colleagues and friends established the prize in his memory.

The current nomination cycle includes the following five other AMS prizes that honor accomplishments in mathematical research and exposition:

• Chevalley Prize in Lie Theory: Given for notable work in Lie theory published in the last six years.
• Levi L. Conant Prize: Recognizes the best expository paper published in either Notices of the AMS or Bulletin of the AMS in the last five years.
• E. H. Moore Research Article Prize: Given for an outstanding research article that has appeared in one of the society’s primary research journals—Journal of the AMS, Proceedings of the AMS, Transactions of the AMS, Memoirs of the AMS, Mathematics of Computation, Electronic Journal of Conformal Geometry and Dynamics, and Electronic Journal of Representation Theory—during the six calendar years ending a full year before the meeting at which the prize is awarded.
• David P. Robbins Prize: Awarded for a paper that reports on novel research on a broadly accessible topic in algebra, combinatorics, or discrete mathematics with a significant experimental component. The paper should provide a simple statement of the problem and clear exposition of the work and must have been published in the last six calendar years.
• Oswald Veblen Prize in Geometry: Recognizes a notable research work in geometry or topology that has appeared in the last six years.

In addition, the AMS is seeking nominations for the following awards that highlight outstanding service to the mathematics community through education, outreach, and other contributions to the profession:

• Award for an Exemplary Program or Achievement in a Mathematics Department: Recognizes a department that has distinguished itself by undertaking an unusual or particularly effective program of value to the mathematics community, internally or in relation to the rest of society.
• Award for Impact on the Teaching and Learning of Mathematics: Honors a mathematician (or group of mathematicians) who has made significant contributions of lasting value to mathematics education.
• Mathematics Programs That Make a Difference: Awarded to outstanding programs that have successfully addressed the issues of underrepresented groups in mathematics such as racial and ethnic minorities, women, low-income students, and first-generation college students.
• Award for Distinguished Public Service: Given to a research mathematician who has made recent or sustained distinguished contributions to the mathematics profession through public service.

Finally, nominations are open for the following two prizes presented jointly by the AMS and other mathematical societies:

• Norbert Wiener Prize in Applied Mathematics: Awarded for an outstanding contribution to applied mathematics in the highest and broadest sense.
• Frank and Brennie Morgan Prize for Outstanding Research by an Undergraduate Student: Honors an undergraduate student (or students for joint work) for outstanding research in mathematics.

Read more about each prize and award. If you know a colleague, student, mentor, or department deserving of any of these accolades, nominate them for consideration. Questions about the nomination processes may be emailed to the AMS secretary.